William kootz



(No Model.)

W KOOTZ A HORSE FLY NET. No. 460,088.

Patented Sept. '22, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM KOOTZ, OF MILWAUKEE, VISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE GEM HAMMOOK AND FLY NET COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSE FLY-NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,088, dated September 22, 1891.

Application filed November '7, 1890. Serial No. 370,597. (No model.)

To all whom/'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM KOOTZ, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse Fly-Nets, of which the following is a description, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a net composed of longitudinal bands or bars and transverse or laterally-extending strings, the invention consisting in the peculiar construction of the bands or bars and the manner of connecting the strings therewith.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a horse with my improved net thereon. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a fragment of the central longitudinal band or bar of the net lying, when in use, along the back and top of the neck of the horse with portions of the strings therewith. Fig. 3 is an edge view or elevation of the same portions of the net shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4t is a View from the under side of the same center band or bar of the net, a portion of the under part or lininfg of the band portions being broken away and omitted to show the manner of connecting' the strings thereto in various forms. Fig. 5 is an under side view of a modified form of a center band or bar of the net, the manner of securing the strings thereto being shown by fragments of the strings, and their locality in the bar being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the center bar and strings therein, substantially as shown in the line G 6 of Fig. et.

This forni of net is constructed of leather, and has a center bar A, and has one or more bars B nearly or quite parallel therewith at a distance therefrom on each side of the center bar. The particular form of construction of the center bar A and the method of connecting the transverse or laterally extending strings C C thereto may be adopted and used in substantially the same form and manner in the other longitudinal bars B B, though the peculiar construction and method of attaching the strings thereto is especially adapted for the center bar. The longitudinal bar A consists of two strips of leather D and E, of equal width, placed one against the other and sewed together by at least two rows of stitching F F, at a distance apart, the rows of stitching runninglengthwise of the bar. The upper and outer strip D is advisablyof thicker leather than the under strip E, which is preferably somewhat in the nature of a lining to the principal strip D. rlhe leather strings O O are secured to the bar by being passed through an aperture, as G, in the under strip E, and run along between the strips D and E in the channel formed between them and between the rows of stitching to an adjacent aperture G, through which it is passed out, and thence runs laterally from the bar. These strings O O in the channel in the longitudinal bar A may lie alongside each other, as shown at I-I, or may overlap each other, as shown at I, or cross each other, as shown at K, or may enter and pass out of apertures G G, so as to have the parts of the several strings that are within the longitudinal bar alternate with each other, as shown at L L. By these several forms of insertions of the strings C in the longitudinal bar it will be observed that the strings may be located opposite each other, so that the strands of one string will be both on the same side of the longitudinal bar, as shown at H and I, or the strings may cross each other in the longitudinal bars or alternate with each other in the bar, and the ends of the same string be turned in opposite directions-that is, respectively to right and left on the under side of the bar, as shown at K and'L.

An important feature ot' this device is that the upper strip D is complete and intact throughout its entire length, while the apertures for the insertion of the strings are made only in the under strip E, whereby the neatness and good appearance of the net are preserved and the net is made more durable, as the upper strip D serves as a housing, preventing rain from entering the bar through the apertures G G, which are in the Linder strip only.

In the modiied form of device shown in Fig. 5 the bar A has three longitudinal rows of stitching F at distances apart, whereby two longitudinal channels are formed in the bar, and apertures G G are made in the lining or under strip E of the bar for the inser- IOC tion of the strings C C. In this form of de- Vice both ends of the strings preferably turn laterally away from the bar on the same side of the bar as the channel in the bar in which the string is inserted.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a horse ily-net comprising longitudinal bars and laterally-extending strings, a longitudinal bar formed of two strips of leather placed one upon the other and secured together by longitudinal rows of stitched threads at a distance apart, the lower or under strip having apertures through it between the rows of threads, with laterally-extending strings, each of which strings passes through two of said apertures in the under strip of the bar, the medial portion of which string lies in a channel in the bar between the rows of stitched threads, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM KOOTZ. Witnesses:

C. T. BENEDICT, ANNA V. FAUsT. 

